Positive I.D. – Eine Frau sieht rot (1986)

Positive I.D. – Eine Frau sieht rot: Directed by Andy Anderson. With Stephanie Rascoe Myers, John S. Davies, Steven Fromholz, Lauren Lane. A plain suburban housewife, the past victim of a brutal assault, is still having trouble coping with the incident a year later. After seeing a story on the evening news, however, she mysteriously begins to assemble an alternate identity, unknown to her family or friends.

“This is the case of a script that unfortunately leads to an u0026quot;unbelievableu0026quot; conclusion. Getting there is not much fun either, as the film plays like a minimal information puzzle. There are zero sympathetic characters, especially the unbearably wimpy husband. Since we never see the rape, which is motivation for the entire contrived plot, our housewifeu0026#39;s revenge plan really is trivialized right from the git-go. The rapist himself is never even shown, until the moment of his demise. The entire production hinges on improbable events that simply cannot be swallowed as fact. So, what you have is a tedious build up to a conclusion that is not believable, and a movie that is not recommended. – MERK”